I knew of an especially bad case of wrongful conviction due to DNA evidence. He was named Willie Moore. He was serving a life sentence for murder in Powhatan State Farm Prison in Virginia. This happened in 1990 in Petersburg Virginia. The prosecuting Commonwealth Attorney was Casandra Byrnes. The murder victim was an elderly man who dealt in counterfeit cigarettes. Counterfeit cigarettes may be cigarettes in which the Virginia State Tobacco tax has not been paid. I believe the murder victim was going to North Carolina where the tax was less. He stayed up all night selling cigarettes and slept all day. The evidence produced in court showed that the saliva on one of the cigarettes found at the crime scene showed that it had DNA characteristics of less than 10% of the Black population. There was no doubt that Willie Moore had visited the crime victim in the night of the murder but he was just one of the many customers. Willie Moore was an absolute schizophrenic who used to yell and scream all day and all night long in his prison cell and he probably did yell “Yess I killt the mother” or words to that effect. I filed a habeas corpus petition for him but I knew he had no chance because those petitions are never granted in Virginia. He is probably still in prison 28 years later. Sam Sloan